Archive for October 31st, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
The folks over at CNET aren't wasting a moment getting to know Panasonic's latest Blu-ray player, so why should you? Reviewers started off by praising Panny for getting a Profile 1.1-compliant player out before the actual deadline, and minor gripes about the DMP-BD10A (namely, the ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: Storage
While the new Buffalo DVD burner can never compare to the wall-rattling speed of Samsung's Super-WriteMaster (which blazes through your pirated software at 20x when hitting DVD±R discs), the 19x offering from the Japanese peripheral manufacturer ain't too shabby. There's not too much to get excited about beyond ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: Desktops
Make no mistake, Everex can build 'em some kind of ugly. Still, they have learned to spin their gear as green, not underpowered, which counts for something. The TC2502 gPC (that's "g" as in "green," not crap) is out cluttering Wal-Mart shelves with a low, low $199 price ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: Peripherals
Oh, how far we've come. Just 2.5-years after Tritton unveiled an adapter that enabled users to run a VGA-equipped display at 800 x 600 via USB, Sewell is offering up a USB-to-DVI converter that actually supports UXGA (that's 1,600 x 1,200 for those counting). In a package no ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Saitek's got a new gaming mouse for those in need of a little more precision than your standard off-the-shelf model, with its new Cyborg mouse cranking the dpi all the way up to 3200. That, of course, can be dialed back to accommodate various mousing tasks, and ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: Portable AudioWe've never had much love for Sony's SonicStage software, and now it looks like there's yet another reason to avoid it: according to Secunia, there's a buffer overflow vulnerability in the latest edition, version 4.3, that allows arbitrary code to be injected and run. The bug is ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals
Nokia -- always known to break a phone-lover off some snazzy new junk -- currently wants to get up in your headspace with its new Bluetooth earpiece, the BH-101. What can the BH-101 do for you, you ask? Well for starters, it'll deliver eight hours of talktime, ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: Storage
It's not the first to boast of a 320GB 2.5-inch hard drive, but Western Digital looks to be the first to actually ship one, with its new 320GB Scorpio SATA drive now available to anyone with a hankering for some spacious portable storage. In addition to cramming all ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Jobo's Giga Vu line has always been primarily targeted at photographers who need portable storage and viewing capabilites, but the devices' Linux foundations and open SDK have made them pretty hacker-friendly as well. Both camps should be happy about Jobo's latest entry, the Giga Vu ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Filed under: CellphonesThe Gphone rumors have been heating up lately, and things seems like they're about to come to a boil. The Wall Street Journal, not generally known for wild rumor-mongering, is reporting that Google is in "advanced talks" with Verizon and Sprint and has made "significant progress" with T-Mobile, ...
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